Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

Legal status of women of Alberta as shown by extracts from Dominion and provincial laws

by: Edwards, Henrietta Muir, 1849-1931. (compiler)

Publication date: 1917

Topics: Settling the West--Women in the West, Alberta--Politics and government, Canada--Politics and government, Women--Laws, legislation, regulations, etc., Women--Legal status, laws, etc., Femmes--Droit, 1917

Publisher: Department of Extension, University of Alberta (Edmonton)

Collection: peel_print; peel; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto

Language: English

Item Size: 20.3M

Edwards, Henrietta Muir: 1849-1931. Born Montreal; with sister founded Working Girl's Association, 1875, and later the first Canadian magazine for working women, Working Woman of Canada; financed magazine by selling her paintings and miniatures; married physician Oliver Cromwell Edwards (1850-1915) and had three children; moved to Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, 1882; with Lady Aberdeen founded National Council of Women, 1893, and Victorian Order of Nurses, 1897; moved to Stand Off, Alberta, 1901; convenor of laws of National Council of Women for 38 years; one of "Famous Five" who instigated the appeal to the Privy Council which gave women the right to sit in the Senate of Canada; avid supporter of equal grounds for divorce, reform of the prison system, and mothers' allowances; died at Macleod, Alberta. // Also published, 2nd edition, [Edmonton?]: Issued by and under the authority of the Attorney-General, 1921 (80p.). // Digitization of this title was sponsored by the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta to commemorate the service of Ms. Navneet Khinda, Member of the Board, 2015-2016